Saturday, February 03, 2007

It's all soooo irrelative!

So Bush hasn't shown his face at a democratic congressional retreat since 2001. He hasn't needed to. But with the shift in power, he showed up at the current one democrats are holding this weekend at a Virginia resort.

And oh, Bush was so funny, he gathered laughs and good will with "self-deprecating jokes, unusual candor and outright flattery" according to reporter Jennifer Loven's article, "Bush Woos Democrats, Pokes Fun at Self."

Sadly, I made the mistake of reading this before my dinner. Quoting speaker of the house, Nancy Pelosi (whose title or body of government in which she serves I find impossible to capitalize--it's all I can do to capitalize government representative's proper names) said to Bush, "We were honored by your presence. We're also encouraged by your remarks."

Afterwards, Pelosi said to reporters of her Bush encounter of the third kind, "Let's make no mistake. The choice is bipartisanship or stalemate. We have to work together," in a reaffirmation that America is no longer a nation of laws applicable to everyone who violates them; who threaten the very foundations the nation was founded on.

However, take solace knowing laws still apply to kids who steal a 12-pack from a 7-11 on a late night beer run or presidents who somehow stain blue dresses, but not those who commit crimes others who committed lesser have hung for.

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THE BEGINNING IS NEAR

HUH?

You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, "Look at that, you son of a bitch."

— Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut, People magazine, 8 April 1974.

"Keep in mind that this planet is no model for rational thought, and that what passes for sanity here is sending chills down the spine of the remainder of the universe." E.T. 101

"An Empire’s power depends on its ability to control the cultural stories and language that shape our collective understanding of our world and our choices as a species. Empire stories induce a kind of cultural trance that conditions us to accept the dominator relations of Empire as just and righteous and to dismiss talk of alternatives as naïve, dangerous, or even sinful." ~ David Korten